Hello have just got back from traveling Asia for 6 months and now I feel i just cant stay put in the UK. I am looking to see a bit of Europe and I am happy to relocate to almost anywhere that I will find HGV work with relative ease. Does anybody have any recommendations for me?
Also any information about possible complications with having UK licence in…Germany for example? I cant see it being as easy as just going there and being able to drive strait of the bat.
Thanks in advance any information at all will be appreciated as I am currently clueless.
Nolans Ireland.
Breen trans Ireland.
Mquires Ireland.
Caffreys Ireland.
Norbert Dentresangle France to UK work.
Gerry Jones Wales.
TD Williams Bridgend Wales.
S&K Barry Wales.
Ralph Davies Cheltenham.
Insight Inkberrow.
CJ Bird not sure where.
Davies Southampton.
Pickfords removals.
Arrmshaws removals.
Kyle2643:
Also any information about possible complications with having UK licence in…Germany for example? I cant see it being as easy as just going there and being able to drive strait of the bat.
UK licence and driver card are valid in Germany. You will also need to have proof of completion of your DCPC, ie the driver qualification card (DQC).
Sorry i should have been more clear I am already in full time employment here in the UK. I want to work in other countries to see some of the world not because I am finding it hard to get a job here in the UK.
Thank you for all the information so far especially that about Ireland and Germany this is more specific to my needs.
Any more information would be hugely appreciated thanks.
Warberers in Hungary would be your best bet if you’re not too bothered about the money, they go everywhere, decent tackle, but long spells away. It was said on here once there is/was a British lad working there as nobody here would give him a break.
Ebener from Austria run to UK/Ireland
Patinter transportes Lda at Mangualade in Portugal take on foreign drivers.Register at the local tax office.
Trans Pascoale in Portugal.
Luis Simoes Portugal.
All above go all over Europe or just UK/Portugal with groupage loads.
Nottheger transport in Austria.A family firm that have bulk food/juice tankers and general haulage.
Pulleyn Ltd at Reading,UK. Pharmaceutical specialists that cover TIR countries and Scandinavia/Europe.
toby1234abc:
Nolans Ireland.
Breen trans Ireland.
Mquires Ireland.
Caffreys Ireland.
Norbert Dentresangle France to UK work.
Gerry Jones Wales.
TD Williams Bridgend Wales.
S&K Barry Wales.
Ralph Davies Cheltenham.
Insight Inkberrow.
CJ Bird not sure where.
Davies Southampton.
Pickfords removals.
Arrmshaws removals.
Think cj birds are in Wales there’s also tierney transport and Virginia transport
Fluckinger in Austria - a very big contract for Volvo Construction Equipment, they have anything from regular curtainsiders up to massive lowloaders and do all of Europe (at least)
norwegian companies doing europe - byrknes auto, LRN/Toten
Dutch flower hauliers
probably get a decent wage out of them compared to waberers
id have thought any eastern bloc countly would be screaming out for truckies,as all the existing ones seem to be over here? driving through warsaw or krakov now must be like driving through wales on a sunday morning with the volume we see crammed in here now.
if your looking to work for an irish company running to Europe,then the main criteria will be 1 can you walk and chew chewing gum at the same time,and 2,can you go out on sunday…though the better companies will most likely have plenty on there books anyway.work for a subby and see the real world.let us know how you get on as itl definitely be interesting to know…
dieseldog999:
id have thought any eastern bloc countly would be screaming out for truckies,as all the existing ones seem to be over here? driving through warsaw or krakov now must be like driving through wales on a sunday morning with the volume we see crammed in here now.
Ah but don’t forget that there is always somewhere further east. I’d imagine if you were in Poland on a Sunday, you’d be seeing hundreds of LT, BY, UA and RUS trucks etc. I remember reading years ago that Polish shipyards were having to employ Ukrainian welders because so many of their own had gone to the UK and Germany etc and these days many Polish trucking companies employ Romanians behind the wheel. What a bizarre game it is now.
dieseldog999:
id have thought any eastern bloc countly would be screaming out for truckies,as all the existing ones seem to be over here? driving through warsaw or krakov now must be like driving through wales on a sunday morning with the volume we see crammed in here now.
as I’m having my weekly rest in the outskirts of nowhere, norway, I did stave off boredom for a few minutes by doing the following math: girteka, one of the biggest players in fridges in europe has 2700 trucks and about 6000 drivers. there are 1.214.743 males in the age group of 15-64 in lithuania, so the drivers of girteka amount to a staggering 0.49% of lithuanias male workforce, probably less as they employ a lot of non-lithuanian drivers.
but as robin mentioned, there is always somewhere east to go, for example I wouldn’t be tramping in scandinavia, if there still was good-paying work back and forth to estonia from the balkans, greece, turkey etc. that was finished when romania and bulgaria joined the one big happy family but I’m not one to complain.
toby1234abc:
Does anyone know anything about the link between Turkey and Germany ?Germany has a lot of Turkish residents.
Here you go Toby, from Wicki…
"Large-scale migration of Turkish citizens to West Germany developed during the Wirtschaftswunder (“economic miracle”) of the 1960s and 1970s. West Germany suffered an acute labour shortage because of the economic boom, in 1961, the Bundesrepublik and officials at the Turkish Republic negotiated a trade of labour. Turkish workers were invited to move to Germany to fill in this void, particularly to work in the factories to do simple repetitive tasks. Turkish citizens soon became the largest group of Gastarbeiter–literally, guest workers–in West Germany, labouring alongside Italians, Yugoslavs, Spaniards, Greeks and other immigrants. The perception at the time on the part of both the West German Government and the Turkish Republic representatives was that working in Germany would “only” be temporary.
After 3 or 4 years, the migrant workers showed considerable signs of distress and were permitted to re-unite with their existing and abandoned families. Eventually, many became settled permanent residents by default with the birth of offspring, school and other obligations in the new lands."
probably not the best, but you might have the chance to do Russia.